|width="700pt"|I'm the E-Learning Librarian at the [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ UC Berkeley Library], where I use emerging information technologies to enhance public services and improve library education. I blog at [http://infomational.wordpress.com/ info-mational]. I recently completed a second Master's degree in [http://www.coe.ohiou.edu/academics/es/it/master-degree.htm Computer Education and Technology] at Ohio University, where I was a Reference and Instruction Librarian from 2006-2008. In April of 2009 I published ''Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies'', a book-length research report that is available as a free download via [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/digital/index.cfm ACRL] or in print at the [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2704 ALA Store]. I also have a book on instructional design/technology and teaching effectiveness coming out later in 2010, ''Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators'', which is now available on [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2896 preorder] through ALA Editions. You can also see a list of my [http://infomational.wordpress.com/pubications/ other publications] and [http://infomational.wordpress.com/presentations/ past and upcoming presentations]. I recently joined the [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/committees/roster.cfm?committee=acr-nsp ACRL New Publications Advisory Board] and am a member of the [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/rss/rsssection/rsscomm/rssresstat/researchstatistics.cfm RUSA Research and Statistics Committee].

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= About Char =

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I'm an E-Learning Librarian at the [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ UC Berkeley Library]. I'm most interested in using emerging information technologies to enhance library services and improve information literacy education. I recently completed a second master's degree in [http://www.coe.ohiou.edu/academics/es/it/master-degree.htm Computer Education and Technology], and I blog at [http://infomational.wordpress.com/ info-mational].

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Many thanks to Library Journal for making me a 2008 [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6535081.html Mover and Shaker], and to ALA past-president [http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/prez_elect/home.html Loriene Roy] for sponsoring my participation in Emerging Leaders in 2007. My [[Project HH|EL project group]] focused on technology, creating the [http://wikis.ala.org/tech_casting/index.php/Main_Page Tech_Casting wiki] as a template platform for tracking tech-based service development in the library community.

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Many thanks to ALA president [http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/prez_elect/home.html Loriene Roy] for sponsoring my participation in Emerging Leaders 2007, and to Library Journal for making me a 2008 [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6535081.html Mover and Shaker].

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My [[Project HH|Emerging Leaders project group]] focused on emerging technologies, creating the [http://wikis.ala.org/tech_casting/index.php/Main_Page Tech_Casting wiki] as a platform for tracking technological development in the library community. I'm currently working on a variety of projects using freeware applications to improve reference services and library website usability, such as a Skype call-in and video kiosk reference pilot. I presented this project at the 2007 ACRL [http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/baltimore/program07/cyberzedshed.htm Cyber Zed Shed] - you can view my slides [http://charbooth.googlepages.com/home here] or listen to a [http://blog.palinet.org/podcast/?p=11 Palinet podcast] about the presentation. I also developed the Reference portion of the 2007 ALA Women's Studies Section [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ACRLWSS/About.shtml Core Books Database Project], am a member of the RUSA RSS [http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/rss/rsssection/rsscomm/rssresstat/Default3118.htm Research and Statistics Committee], and will be interning for the [http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litacommittees/techaccesscomm/technologyaccess.cfm LITA Technology and Access committee] in 2008. I also recently participated in a [http://infomational.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/future-of-libraries-part-iii-fingertips-to-fingertips-panel-session/ panel discussion] titled "Services Without Sites: When Fingertips-to-Fingertips Augments Face-to-Face" at the [http://www.plsinfo.org/workshops/future07.htm Future of Libraries] conference in San Francisco. I recently presented at the [http://www.cni.org/tfms/2007b.fall/index.html Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting], and also answered a few questions for the ACRL [http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlmembership/acrlmembers.cfm#booth Meet Our Members] page. I also presented programs at the [http://www.infotoday.com/CIL2008/speakers.asp?speaker=CharBooth 2008 Computers in Libraries] and [http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=ZDhoaWViZ204c3FxcDRhOHIwYW5qbm80bzQgMnQ3bWhnam1hbzE0MXRtczlqaHRvaGFzM2dAZw&ctz=America%2FNew_York&gsessionid=Wuii5qmhDMaV--bbEZA4mQALA ALA Annual 2008] conferences.

I was born and raised in Texas, and therefore consider myself one of the (irrationally) chosen few. I attended [http://web.reed.edu/alumni/reunions/2006/class_photos.html Reed College] in Portland, Oregon, as an undergraduate, and subsequently received my M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin [http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/ School of Information]. In my down time I'm usually baking, brewing, or cooking with total abandon.

I was born and raised in Texas, and therefore consider myself one of the (irrationally) chosen few. I attended [http://web.reed.edu/alumni/reunions/2006/class_photos.html Reed College] in Portland, Oregon, as an undergraduate, and subsequently received my M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin [http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/ School of Information]. In my down time I'm usually baking, brewing, or cooking with total abandon.

Many thanks to Library Journal for making me a 2008 Mover and Shaker, and to ALA past-president Loriene Roy for sponsoring my participation in Emerging Leaders in 2007. My EL project group focused on technology, creating the Tech_Casting wiki as a template platform for tracking tech-based service development in the library community.

I was born and raised in Texas, and therefore consider myself one of the (irrationally) chosen few. I attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, as an undergraduate, and subsequently received my M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. In my down time I'm usually baking, brewing, or cooking with total abandon.